The West-tr candidate coming north about the geese
London : Publish'd as the Act directs by S. Fores N: 3 Piccadilly, March 31 1784.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Print shows a flock of geese (i.e., Westminster electors) chanting Fox's name and pecking at grains thrown to them by Lord North from a purse labeled "Treasury grains" he is holding under his arm; next to him is a smiling Charles Fox, with a "list of voters" in his hand, promising the geese "anything for your votes"; behind them, Edmund Burke holds a flag inscribed, "for the liberty of the flock", and standing behind the geese is William Pitt who declares himself their guardian against the "wolves in sheeps cloathing." Six of the ten geese are saying "Fox", looking towards him, two are picking up coins, one turns round towards Pitt saying, "but You Give no such Grains". Cf. British Museum catalog.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 former owner.